“Jeff Sessions, who apparently has come from the land that time forgot, is going to just simply proclaim that all the states programs where we are giving needed, much needed, relief to cancer patients and AIDS patients and all the rest . . . I’m sorry, but like, Maryland should literally turn the other way and proceed as the rest of the country has.”

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It is not immediately clear how the decision will impact sales of the drug, which are legal on the state level in eight states and Washington, D.C.

As Sessions notes in his memo, marijuana remains federally illegal.

Justice Department officials say they could take further action against states that have legalized pot but stopped short of offering specifics.